Agreement between the German-Israelite Congregation and the City Treasury, Hamburg, January 10, 1914

Source Description

Providing pastoral care for Jewish prisoners in the Fuhlsbüttel
prison was common practice since the late 19th century, but the legal basis for it was
only created with this agreement of January 1914.
The two-page agreement between the German-Israelite congregation and Hamburg’s
treasury office, which
is part of the collections of the Hamburg
State Archives, deals with the payment of Jewish
chaplains at the Fuhlsbüttel
prison. The agreement was made “subject to authorization of the
required funds.” As a source, it highlights the specific needs of Jewish
prisoners in Imperial
Germany, among the most urgent of which were the question of
obtaining kosher food and
religious counseling by a chaplain.